Improved table



H. C. HARDY, O'F MIINCIE, INDIANA'. Leners Patent' No. 66,148, and June25, 1867.

IMPROVBD TABLE.

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T0 ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

`:Be it known that C. HARDY, of Muncie, inthe county ofDlaware, andState of Indiana, have invented a new and useful improvement in Tables;and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable others skilled in `the art tomake and use the same, reference being had -to the accompanying drawing.forming` part ofthis specification'.

The drawing is a perspective view of a table with` mydevice attached foroperating. on the leaves to raise and lower them easily. v i g l v VThis invention relates to a lnew and useful oontrivance for aiding inraising and lowering the leaves of an 'ordinarydning-table, and consistsin connecting weightsv to hang unden the'bed, of the table with'thesliding supports usually `employed to hold the leaves when they areraised, which weights draw' upon the supports at the time the -leave'sare raised and throw them4 out undex` the leaves to support them.Attached to the supporters are also levers, which `may he readily turnedtoraise the weights and throw the supporters back when the leaves areagain lowered, thus lmaking .theraising andlowering ofthe leaves of atableeasy and convenient.

An ordinary table is'shown in the drawing, ofwhich A is the bed, and B Bthe side leaves. C C are supports fitted on the frameE, as usual, whichturn on the pivots a a. D D are weights hung to chains or cords, b b,one end of which is fastened to the4 bed and the other to the supports CC nent their ends at c. Between the points c c and the pivotsl a a areattached chains or ropes', d d, on the supporters C C, which chains areconnected at the other ends with the ends of the levers e e pivoted onthe under side of" the leaves B B near their outer edge, nearly midwayhetweentheir ends, as showniiclearly in the.,drawin'g. The levers e` earepro; vided with crank-handles, e', with which they are turnedconveniently by the hand when the leaves are lowered withoutrequiringthe person to stoopl to push in the supporters 4C C. When th'eleaves are raised the weights D D act automatically to draw outthesupporters C C under the leaves of the table. v

Having descrilied my invention, I cla-im as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent-'- Ihe weights D D and levers e e, in combination withthe supporters C C, arranged and 'operating substan tially as and forthepurposes herein described. l i

' l i Y H. C. HARDY:

Witnesses:

A. M'. KLEIN,

JosnP'n PRUTZMAN.

